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The UN human rights office has launched a media campaign promoting homosexual and transgender rights. The yearlong initiative, funded by outside sources, raises questions over the use of UN offices for what some governments will consider propaganda. The UN leaders’ campaign to cast sexual rights as universally agreed human rights comes after years of failing to gain governmental support for homosexuality. Attempts to legitimize special rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) have repeatedly failed at the Human Rights Council, the governing body over the UN office that produced the campaign. Navi Pillay , the UN’s top human rights official, announced the “Free & Equal” campaign last week in South Africa. One ad proclaims, “ LGBT rights are human rights.” In another, Pillay states LGBT rights are “nothing new or special.” Critics point out that human rights apply to all people. LGBT rights are distinct, and lead to instituting same-sex marriage, requ...

In a loss for homosexual groups at the United Nations , member states declined to establish a special UN office for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights last week. Earlier this year, UN insiders told the Friday Fax that homosexual and transgender rights would soon become mainstream at the United Nations. But their predictions failed to materialize at the current session of the Human Rights Council . Member states declined to create a special office to monitor LGBT rights globally, and proponents did not table a resolution to that effect because it would have likely failed. Norway , speaking on behalf of countries that supported such an office, told the Council on Monday that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) issues should be integrated into the UN systematically at an “appropriate time”— effectively conceding this is impossible right now. Norway was part of a small group of countries that sponsored a conference calling for  LGBT rights in Ap...